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Originally Posted by zhukaSS
more I guess, since 90% of payouts doesnt improve your BRM much, and only top5 improves your BRM significantly. I even wont start about how artificially pumped first spots is.
Btw, is there any regular daily MTT left without this payout structure?
Higher stake games on PokerStars, believe it starts at $80+ have more favorable structures, somewhat comparable to the old ones.
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Originally Posted by coon74
Indeed, measures against stalling must be taken urgently.
I suggest a partial all-in shootout near the bubble E.g. when 25% of the initial field is left, pause the dealing, take the bottom 30% of the remaining players by stack size (7.5% of the initial field) to special 'bubble judgment' tables and put them all-in there until the bubble bursts (3 hands will be enough), then reseat the survivors back to the normal tables. The shortest stacks will have a low chance of surviving the auto-all-ins, and larger ones will have a high chance, so there will be less incentive to stall before those.
For non-winner-take-all satellites, it's even easier - start the all-in shootout when the # of remaining players is 1.5 times the money zone (rounded up), and proceed until it's known who's won the seats.
Another re-invent the wheel type solution which would probably be a WTF moment for most playing those MTTs. Adjusting payouts to previous successful models, which were by the way ok and popular for decades, would be much simpler unless you want to burden the players with more frequent "hand for hand" play at earlier levels which will cause delay and annoyance for most people imo. There will always be people trying to abuse the structure and system but the older or more standard pay jump structures made it much less enticing at those parts of the tournament and "hand for hand" at the final few tables solved the stalling issue at that point in the later parts of the tournament.
What isn't broken doesn't need to be fixed and for sure poker isn't and will not be as popular as it once was but their changes to the structures have had absolutely no increase to the popularity of the game, only their immediate bottom line.
Atleast they did eliminate the ability for 3rd party software to "auto" bot the timebank according to their rules. I use Stars Caption and it no longer supports the function to have your time bank "auto" clicked at certain per-defined intervals. They also apparently lowered the pre-time bank interval recently within their software but overall they are just putting band aids on what is a "bad" structure in the majority of their low to mid stake tournaments.